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title: Children of 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night. — Sleep, exercise and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Children of 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night. Who acts: Children. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep, exercise and growing up, sentence 2

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Children of 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** need

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:038-sleep-exercise-growing.lesson:2
# text = Children of 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 038-sleep-exercise-growing.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Children of 6 to 12 |  |  |  | hour; night |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:038-sleep-exercise-growing.lesson:2`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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